Neuromorphic photonic technologies and architectures: scaling opportunities and performance frontiers

G Dabos, DV Bellas, R Stabile… - Optical Materials …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We review different technologies and architectures for neuromorphic photonic accelerators,
spanning from bulk optics to photonic-integrated-circuits (PICs), and assess compute …

Scalable and compact photonic neural chip with low learning-capability-loss

Y Tian, Y Zhao, S Liu, Q Li, W Wang, J Feng, J Guo - Nanophotonics, 2022 - degruyter.com
Photonic computation has garnered huge attention due to its great potential to accelerate
artificial neural network tasks at much higher clock rate to digital electronic alternatives …

[HTML][HTML] Photonic and optoelectronic neuromorphic computing

L El Srouji, A Krishnan, R Ravichandran, Y Lee, M On… - APL Photonics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Recent advances in neuromorphic computing have established a computational framework
that removes the processor-memory bottleneck evident in traditional von Neumann …

[HTML][HTML] Large-scale and energy-efficient tensorized optical neural networks on III–V-on-silicon MOSCAP platform

X **ao, MB On, T Van Vaerenbergh, D Liang… - Apl Photonics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
This paper proposes a large-scale, energy-efficient, high-throughput, and compact
tensorized optical neural network (TONN) exploiting the tensor-train decomposition …

Materials for emergent silicon-integrated optical computing

AA Demkov, C Bajaj, JG Ekerdt, CJ Palmstrøm… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Progress in computing architectures is approaching a paradigm shift: traditional computing
based on digital complementary metal-oxide semiconductor technology is nearing physical …

Ultra‐Compact and NonVolatile Nanophotonic Neural Networks

H Yuan, Z Wang, Z Peng, J Wu… - Advanced Optical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A nanophotonic neural network (N‐PNN) architecture is proposed with compact
nanophotonic scattering units and a hybrid structure of silicon and nonvolatile arrayed …

Ultra-power-efficient heterogeneous III–V/Si MOSCAP (de-) interleavers for DWDM optical links

S Cheung, G Kurczveil, Y Hu, M Fu, Y Yuan… - Photonics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We discuss the design and demonstration of various III–V/Si asymmetric Mach–Zehnder
interferometer (AMZI) and ring-assisted AMZI (de-) interleavers operating at O-band …

Scalable nanophotonic-electronic spiking neural networks

L El Srouji, YJ Lee, MB On, L Zhang… - IEEE Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spiking neural networks (SNN) provide a new computational paradigm capable of highly
parallelized, real-time processing. Photonic devices are ideal for the design of high …

[HTML][HTML] Ultra-high density and nonvolatile nanophotonic convolution processing unit

Z Wang, J Feng, Z Peng, Y Zhang, Y Wu, Y Hu, J Wu… - Results in Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
Photonic convolution processing units are the core components of photonic neural networks
(PNNs). Traditionally, for an N× N photonic convolution processing unit, it typically requires …

Towards Reverse-Engineering the Brain: Brain-Derived Neuromorphic Computing Approach with Photonic, Electronic, and Ionic Dynamicity in 3D integrated circuits

SJ Yoo, L El-Srouji, S Datta, S Yu, JA Incorvia… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The human brain has immense learning capabilities at extreme energy efficiencies and
scale that no artificial system has been able to match. For decades, reverse engineering the …